A Developmentalist's Approach to Research, Theory, and Therapy

The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and practical contributions, and salient research findings._x005F_x000D_ Leading psychoanalyst Joseph D. Lichtenberg is one of the most experienced and best respected psychoanalysts working in the US at present. In A Developmentalist's Approach to research, theory, and therapy he provides the reader with an opportunity to track the development of his conceptions in three realms of psychoanalysis._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Infant studies and developmentalist perspectives on the life cycle_x005F_x000D_ Theoretical contributions to self-psychology _x005F_x000D_ Motivational clinical contributions_x005F_x000D_ Joseph Lichtenberg is a hugely influential name within US Psychoanalysis circles; this is the first collection of the seminal papers from his very long and distinguished career._x005F_x000D_ Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology